Two bedrooms 1.5 bath, big garage could be expanded to small apartment.
Rooftop terrace with palapa.
For more fotos and data go here: http://rfasoc.com/jamur.html
Friday, January 16, 2015
Reduction, Casa Jamur, La Cruz
Casa Jamur, sitting atop Monte Calvario in La Cruz, with huge views of the bay and the lights of Vallarta, has been reduced to just $187,800
Two bedrooms 1.5 bath, big garage could be expanded to small apartment.
Rooftop terrace with palapa.
For more fotos and data go here: http://rfasoc.com/jamur.html
Two bedrooms 1.5 bath, big garage could be expanded to small apartment.
Rooftop terrace with palapa.
For more fotos and data go here: http://rfasoc.com/jamur.html
New listing, Villa Las Rosas Nuevo Vallarta II
Exceptionally clean and well maintained home on Retorno Las Rosas, just
off Jacarandas. Main house and attached casita.
House has 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, plus enclosed patio-sunroom, and beautifully remodeled kitchen.
Casita has 1 bedroom 1 bath.
Large pool with palapa, plus enclosed sun-room-patio. Parking for several cars and or boat.
Mostly furnished, with high quality pieces. $368,000 USD
MLV Vallarta #38674, and AMPI Flex MLS #6890
Call Robert 322 135 5979 or office 329 298 3314
High res fotos and hi def video tour here: http://rfasoc.com/singleton.html
House has 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, plus enclosed patio-sunroom, and beautifully remodeled kitchen.
Casita has 1 bedroom 1 bath.
Large pool with palapa, plus enclosed sun-room-patio. Parking for several cars and or boat.
Mostly furnished, with high quality pieces. $368,000 USD
MLV Vallarta #38674, and AMPI Flex MLS #6890
Call Robert 322 135 5979 or office 329 298 3314
High res fotos and hi def video tour here: http://rfasoc.com/singleton.html
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Wait But Why
Robert:
A fellow named Tim Urban writes one of the most unpretentiously intelligent blogs I have seen, and I'm an addictive blog reader.
It's called Wait But Why.
His posts are as insightful, brilliant and humorous as a New Yorker cartoon, if the cartoon's premise were developed into a short article.
Here are a couple of posts from the archives of 2014:
The Great Perils of Social Interaction
Ten Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of
A fellow named Tim Urban writes one of the most unpretentiously intelligent blogs I have seen, and I'm an addictive blog reader.
It's called Wait But Why.
His posts are as insightful, brilliant and humorous as a New Yorker cartoon, if the cartoon's premise were developed into a short article.
Here are a couple of posts from the archives of 2014:
The Great Perils of Social Interaction
Ten Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of
Friday, December 19, 2014
Paraphrasing E.B. White
Robert:
To paraphrase E.B. White:
I get up every morning determined both to improve the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
To paraphrase E.B. White:
I get up every morning determined both to improve the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
Monday, December 15, 2014
Tepic Plaza, December 2014
Robert:
I spent the weekend in Tepic, the capitol of our state (Nayarit).
Tepic has a particularly pleasant plaza...always teeming with families amd shoppers, and especially so as we near Navidad (Xmas). Here is some video taken as we walked around Saturday evening.
(Remember that YouTube often defaults to a low resolution 360 playback; you can select much clearer quality by clicking the little gear icon below the YouTube screen on PCs, or the three vertically aligned dots in the upper right hand corner of the YouTube screen on an iPad, and selecting 480, 720 etc.)
I spent the weekend in Tepic, the capitol of our state (Nayarit).
Tepic has a particularly pleasant plaza...always teeming with families amd shoppers, and especially so as we near Navidad (Xmas). Here is some video taken as we walked around Saturday evening.
(Remember that YouTube often defaults to a low resolution 360 playback; you can select much clearer quality by clicking the little gear icon below the YouTube screen on PCs, or the three vertically aligned dots in the upper right hand corner of the YouTube screen on an iPad, and selecting 480, 720 etc.)
Monday, November 24, 2014
De Tocqueville On Literature in Democracies
Robert:
Alexis de Tocqueville, undisputedly one of the most brilliant thinkers of the early 19th century (or maybe ever), had the following insights into the character of a culture's literature, as influenced by its form of governance.
“In democracies it is by no means the case that all who cultivate literature have received a literary education, and most of those who have some acquaintance with good writing go into politics or adopt some profession which leaves only short, stolen hours for the pleasures of the mind. They therefore do not make such delights the principal joy of their existence, but think of them rather as a passing relaxation needed from the serious business of life. Such men will never have a deep enough understanding of literature to appreciate its refinements. Fine nuances will pass them by. With but short time to spend on books, they want it all to be profitable. They like books which are easily got and quickly read, requiring no learned researches to understand them. They like facile forms of beauty, self-explanatory and immediately enjoyable; above all, they like things unexpected and new. Accustomed to the monotonous struggle of practical life, what they want is vivid, lively emotions, sudden revelations, brilliant truths, or errors able to rouse them up and plunge them, almost by violence, into the middle of the subject.
He continues:
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste,” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
The trends he describes have only accelerated in our internet age. One can only wonder how dismayed, or amused, de Tocqueville would be by our current click bait, soundbite, hook-book mentality.
Alexis de Tocqueville, undisputedly one of the most brilliant thinkers of the early 19th century (or maybe ever), had the following insights into the character of a culture's literature, as influenced by its form of governance.
“In democracies it is by no means the case that all who cultivate literature have received a literary education, and most of those who have some acquaintance with good writing go into politics or adopt some profession which leaves only short, stolen hours for the pleasures of the mind. They therefore do not make such delights the principal joy of their existence, but think of them rather as a passing relaxation needed from the serious business of life. Such men will never have a deep enough understanding of literature to appreciate its refinements. Fine nuances will pass them by. With but short time to spend on books, they want it all to be profitable. They like books which are easily got and quickly read, requiring no learned researches to understand them. They like facile forms of beauty, self-explanatory and immediately enjoyable; above all, they like things unexpected and new. Accustomed to the monotonous struggle of practical life, what they want is vivid, lively emotions, sudden revelations, brilliant truths, or errors able to rouse them up and plunge them, almost by violence, into the middle of the subject.
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| Alexis de Tocqueville |
He continues:
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste,” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
The trends he describes have only accelerated in our internet age. One can only wonder how dismayed, or amused, de Tocqueville would be by our current click bait, soundbite, hook-book mentality.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Video Tour, Villa Los Sauces
Here's the new video tour of Villa Los Sauces. It is shot and uploaded in HD. Just in case you don't know, YouTube often automatically defaults to a lower resolution setting, depending upon your bandwidth. There is a manual override to restore playback in high definition.
Click the small gear icon below the YouTube screen., and you can then choose 720 or 1080 for maximum clarity. However, if you have a slow connection, the video might stop and start, stop and start, when using the higher settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmqL2v0W_0s&edit=vd
Click the small gear icon below the YouTube screen., and you can then choose 720 or 1080 for maximum clarity. However, if you have a slow connection, the video might stop and start, stop and start, when using the higher settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmqL2v0W_0s&edit=vd
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